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Sodomising of Haslington two-year-old…15-year old uncle to face murder charge

Jan 09, 2014 News

 

Almost three months after the police launched an investigation into the suspicious death of two year -old Kimanie Watson, the Director of Public Prosecution has advised that her 15 year -old uncle be charged for her murder.
Kaieteur News was reliably informed that the teenager, who was the prime suspect in the death of the child after a post mortem report confirmed that she had been sodomised, will appear today at the Vigilance Magistrate’s Court.
The advice comes after weeks of intense investigations during which the teenager was detained and released.
The two-year-old, of Lot 46 South Haslington, East Coast Demerara died on October 21 last year under suspicious circumstances, a few hours after she was seen playing in her yard with her cousins.
Watson’s grandmother, Dianne Graham, had explained that on the fateful day, the child’s mother, who is a security guard, had left her at home to go to work as usual. “All of we live together and my daughter does leave her children with me.”
Kaieteur News was told that Graham subsequently went out to collect some money from Western Union, leaving the two-year-old at home with her 15-year-old son.
“When I was coming back, I get a call to come at the hospital and when I go there then I hear Kimanie died,” the grandmother had related.
This newspaper understands that after the child was pronounced dead, her body was taken to the mortuary.
However, officials at the hospital upon reflecting on the child’s sudden death, decided to take a second look at the body.
They first discovered what appeared to be an old bite mark on her back.
They were further shocked when they found that her anus was enlarged and they concluded that it was a clear case of penetration from the outside.
“The child was wrapped up and taken to the mortuary but was brought back and examined in the presence of a social worker. They found that the anus was wide open,” a source had informed this newspaper.
The police were informed and immediately launched an investigation.
While it was hoped that a report from a private medical practitioner may clear the teenage suspect, a post mortem report pointed investigators in a different direction.
The medical report from the private practitioner, which was seen by this newspaper, revealed that the 15-year-old suspect, under whose care little Watson was left prior to her death, had no recent or old bruises on his penis.
However, the post mortem, which was done by government pathologist Dr. Nehaul Singh at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC)’s mortuary, revealed that little Kimanie died from hemorrhage and shock due to multiple abdominal injuries.
A source who witnessed the post mortem told this newspaper that the child’s anus was fully dilated. “She spleen rupture. It appear like she been face down when this thing happen.”
The incident has created a huge rift among family members.
One section of the family had claimed that the child was suffering from a severe bout of diarrhea, but medical practitioners found enough evidence to suggest that she was the victim of a brutal sexual assault.
Dianne Graham is maintaining that her son did not sexually molest her granddaughter. “I could put my head on a block and swear that he didn’t touch that child.”
According to Graham, her daughter, Venice Phillips, the dead child’s mother, had threatened to kill her on many occasions.
“She run me with a cutlass the wake night and she would still talk nonsense even though I contributed financially to the funeral.”

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